US Patent Issued to CHECK POINT SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES on Dec. 9 for "System and method for protecting against wipers by delaying suspicious actions" (Israeli, Belarusian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,697, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to CHECK POINT SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"System and method for protecting against wipers by delaying suspicious actions" was invented by Liran Orevi (Rishon-LeZion, Israel), Haggai David (Petah-Tikva, Israel), Ilan Moshkovich (Tel Aviv, Israel), Mikita Karniushka (Minsk, Belarus) and Pavel Kavalenka (Minsk, Belarus).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and method are provided for protecting against malware attacks affecting a computer system. To do so, system operations are detected and categorized as benign, suspicious, or malicious. Suspicious actions are delayed and placed...